Payments Platform Lead Engineer — Hybrid (AU)

K1 Industries; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Xero is seeking a Lead Engineer in Making Payments to own the technical lifecycle of bill payments. You’ll shape architecture, turn it into a clear plan, guide the team, and ensure health of live systems at scale, delivering reliable, compliant money movement.

Based in Sydney or Melbourne, you’ll work in a hybrid setup with global counterparts, collaborate with product, design, security and risk, and mentor engineers while driving AI-powered improvements across the payments platform.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in a senior technical role such as Staff Engineer or Tech Lead.
• Experience delivering highly available, distributed backend systems at scale, ideally in payments, fintech or another regulated space.
• Proficiency in modern backend languages (C#, Java, Go or C++).
• Cloud-native experience with AWS.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Define and build core platform services for reliable, scalable, secure money movement capabilities.
• Stay hands-on by contributing production code, proofs of concept and technical deep dives.
• Drive technical excellence through design reviews and best practices for reliability, security and scale.
• Ensure operational excellence with on-call practices, observability, and high-performance systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to translate complex business needs into resilient engineering solutions.
• Mentor and grow engineers, fostering inclusion, collaboration and excellence.
• Drive innovation with AI tools and practices across the team.

Skills

Staff Engineer

Tech Lead

Distributed backend

Payments domain

Tools

C#

Java

Go

C++

AWS

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Job description

Xero is seeking a Lead Engineer in Making Payments to own the technical lifecycle of bill payments. You’ll shape architecture, turn it into a clear plan, guide the team, and ensure health of live systems at scale, delivering reliable, compliant money movement.

Based in Sydney or Melbourne, you’ll work in a hybrid setup with global counterparts, collaborate with product, design, security and risk, and mentor engineers while driving AI-powered improvements across the payments platform.